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A disease that is more commonly associated with the trenches of the First World War, and can sometimes be found in refugee camps, has been detected in several patients in Alberta who received organ transplants.

Bartonella quintana, an infection caused by body lice, has been found in seven organ transplant recipients in Alberta since 2022, according to Dr. Dima Kabbani, a transplant infectious disease physician who treated the patients.

"It was quite alarming to us, especially that we know that this bacteria can cause a more serious type of infection because sometimes it can affect your heart valve or it can affect some of the major organs," Kabbani said.

The disease, which presents as skin lesions, was transferred to organ recipients from their donors, all of whom were people who had been living with homelessness and who had been infected themselves.

The federal government is poised to release their next-generation transit investment program, the Canada Public Transit Fund. It may surprise you to learn that not a single penny of this $30-billion program is allowed to go toward stopping transit service cuts. Since 2016, it has been the federal government's policy to limit the public transit funding it provides to building new subway or light rail infrastructure or buying new buses. It cannot be used to make existing transit more reliable by increasing service hours and the frequency of trains or buses. This is despite studies showing that these measures are the most important drivers of key outcomes like ridership growth and emissions reductions.

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The election agency also says in a statement that screening of uncounted absentee and mail-in ballots has identified 65,000 votes provincewide that will also be tallied from Saturday until Monday, up from the previous estimate of 49,000.

Trudeau, Polievre, and LeBlanc issue get-fucked letter to Semidoun.

Seriously, fuck them and the horses they rode in on.

The penalty was part of a decision the tribunal issued in September that saw it side with the Competition Bureau, which accused Cineplex of misleading theatre-goers by not immediately presenting them with the full price of a movie ticket when they bought seats online.

Cineplex began charging an $1.50 online booking fee in June 2022 to many customers not enrolled in its CineClub subscription and Scene Plus loyalty programs, which saw the fee waived or dropped to $1, respectively. It's a practice known as drip pricing.

Data from Alberta’s Ministry of Children and Family Services shows that 89 per cent of young people who have died while receiving child intervention services this summer were Indigenous.

Advocates and frontline workers are urging the Alberta government to take immediate action to protect at-risk children and implement long-term child welfare reforms.

Between April 1 and Aug. 31, 18 children, youth and young adults died while receiving intervention services in Alberta. Sixteen were Indigenous.

Of those who died, two were not currently in care, eight were in care, and eight were receiving post-intervention support, which can be accessed by young adults over 18 who have previously been involved in child intervention.

Nearly all the deaths are still under investigation and the cause is listed as pending in the report from Children and Family Services. One death is listed as accidental, and two are listed as having died by suicide. The Tyee is supported by readers like you Join us and grow independent media in Canada

“When we see that 16 out of 18 deaths are Indigenous, it’s really clear that systemic problems persist, despite the previous interventions and reforms,” said Audra Foggin, associate professor of social work at Mount Royal University and a Sixties Scoop survivor.

“It’s no longer shocking to me, as an Indigenous person, and nor should anybody in Canada be shocked about this. They should be taking action towards this. And I think everybody has a responsibility as a treaty person in Canada to be thinking about how we can address these devastating impacts through Canada’s history,” she said.

Government says the levels plan will result in a 0.2 per cent population decline over next 2 years

Surprised I haven't seen this story here yet. Her name was Gursimran Kaur; she burned to death.

Surprised I haven't seen this story here yet. Her name was Gursimran Kaur; she burned to death.

The federal government says it can’t wait any longer for Ontario to end encampments in its cities and will offer money directly to municipalities, including Toronto, to fix the problem.

In a statement issued Tuesday, Housing Minister Sean Fraser said he sent a letter to every province and territory on Sept. 18 asking them to partner with Ottawa to “urgently” find shelter for the unhoused or those living in tents.

The offer includes a total of $250 million in funding in exchange for matching contributions by the provinces and territories.

However, Fraser said since the offer was made, the feds have not heard back from Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

British Columbians awaiting a final vote count that will determine who governs their province are understandably anxious. After all, in many ways, the agendas of the NDP and Conservatives are starkly different.

But one group hasn’t felt much concern during the campaign. For the liquefied natural gas industry, the winner made little difference.

Both parties are supportive of the construction of nearly $100 billion worth of LNG terminals, though the BC NDP has set more conditions.

Only the BC Green Party has opposed the economic gamble. As Green Leader Sonia Furstenau stated before she was defeated in her attempt to win the riding of Victoria-Beacon Hill, “neither David Eby nor John Rustad have an economic plan that is rooted in reality.”